George Floyd was a criminal, a thug who had engaged in armed robberies, during one of which he put a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman.  He did that to threaten her and her unborn child with death if she wouldn’t tell him and his accomplices where her money and valuables were hidden.  Floyd was also a drug addict and a drug dealer, who at the time of his death had three times the level of Fentanyl which could cause death.  In addition, his blood showed that he had also recently consumed Methamphetamines  and other illegal drugs.  All this was a violation of his parole agreement, and even in his heavily drugged condition he knew it.    

So, he resisted arrest, which was video taped by bystanders some minutes after being initially approached by four Minneapolis policemen who had been called to the scene by a convenience store employee on whom Floyd had attempted to pass a counterfeit twenty dollar bill.  That individual also stated that Floyd was acting erratically.

For months, the prosecutors in the case had refused to release either the body cam footage of the incident from the officers involved or the formal results of the coroner’s autopsy performed on Floyds body after he died.  As a result, all the public had to judge about the incident was video of Floyd on the ground after he had apparently been handcuffed, saying “I can’t breath”!

So, that fragmentary evidence was used by “Black Lives Matter” to inflame the nation, causing many deaths and justifying violent riots and looting countrywide.  Hundreds of businesses were looted and burned in the process.  Whole city blocks were destroyed.

George Floyd was transformed into some kind of martyr for the cause of racial injustice and police brutality.  His family has been awarded tens of millions of dollars for being denied the company of this “Gentle Giant” of a man.  However, the body cam footage and the autopsy results paint a completely different picture of the event.

Numerous times, from the first contact with the police, Floyd complained that he was having trouble breathing.  The phrase “I can’t breath” is heard many times prior to being forced to the ground and having Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck.  In fact, one of the effects of an overdose of Fentanyl is trouble breathing because of the effect the drug has on the human diaphragm.

So, was Officer Chauvin responsible for Floyd’s death because he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck (following a procedure he was trained to do at the Minneapolis Police Academy during his initial training)?  Possibly that was a contributing factor for sure, but Floyd was probably a “Dead Man Walking” due to the overdose and his existing heart condition brought on by his drug addictions.

Which brings us to the trial, in which Chauvin was convicted on all counts, including unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.  This after less than a day of deliberations.   If this verdict stands, Chauvin will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison if he isn’t killed by another inmate, that is.

The trial, like the recent elections, was in many ways a farce.  There was no way Chauvin could receive a fair trial in a Minneapolis courtroom, given all the inflammatory rhetoric and catastrophic events in that city over the last ten months.  Add to that, the fact that, unbelievably, the jury was not sequestered, and so could watch the nightly news and read the newspapers which were describing the intimidation of witnesses for the defense, and threats being made to resume the rioting and looting if Chauvin wasn’t convicted on all counts.  Some politicians were even calling for a first degree murder conviction as well. 

So, this is Mob Rule, which is becoming the norm in this country under the Biden-Harris Regime.  Is this is the “Fundamental Transformation of America” promised by Barack Obama in 2008 and delivered by Joe Biden in 2021?  It seems to be exactly that.  Election laws dictated by the federal government, most of the Bill of Rights decimated by Presidential fiat.  A citizenry cowed, disarmed, and dominated by a Deep State controlled bureaucracy.  No longer “The land of the free and the home of the brave”.

We have allowed the left to canonize an ever increasing number of thugs like George Floyd simply because they are black, and therefore incapable of understanding their deeds, I guess.  It is past time for responsible members of the African-American community to stand up and denounce politicians like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Stacy Abrams, and yes, even Barack and Michelle Obama.  They must stop listening to race baiters like Al Sharpton and his ilk. They must realize that indeed ALL not just BLACK lives matter. The inflammatory rhetoric is indeed fanning the flames of new, very un-civil war based partially on race hatreds.  All of the accomplishments of the past fifty-six years can be blown away in an instant if they aren’t very, very careful.